Rudolf Rahn

Rudolf Rahn
German Plenipotentiary of Italy
In office
23 September 1943  25 April 1945
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born16 March 1900
Ulm, Württemberg, German Empire
Died7 January 1975(1975-01-07) (aged 74)
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyNSDAP

Rudolf Rahn (16 March 1900 – 7 January 1975) was a German diplomat who served the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. As a member of the Nazi Party, and as Plenipotentiary of the Italian Social Republic in the closing stages of the Second World War, he was arrested and held at Nuremberg as a potential war criminal, but he was released in 1949 and deemed to be denazified in Class V (exonerated).